Origins: Missing in Action

Subject: RE: Origins: Missing in Action
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 03:23 PM

Sung by Ernest Tubb. Lyrics at: Missing
Also at Cowpie: http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/songs
(Enter Ernest Tubb and scroll to lyrics).

Subject: Origins: Missing in Action
From: Vixen
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 02:10 PM

D'Cats--

I've checked the Forum and the DT, and didn't find this one anywhere. A friend of my dad's gave me the following lyrics, and is looking for a recording of it. We don't know who performed it originally, or which conflict it refers to. The following lyric was written out by my dad's friend--on the same sheet of paper is "Doc William Chickie and Border Rider" neither one of which appears to turn up anything relevant on google.

All info gratefully appreciated!

V


Missing In Action

The war ship had landed and I came ashore
The fighting was over for me evermore
For I had been wounded; they left me for dead
A stone for my pillow and snow for my bed
The enemy found me and took me away
And made me a prisoner of war so they say
But God in his mercy was with me one day
The gates were left open and I ran away
I returned home my sweet wife to see
The door left open and there on a stand
I saw a picture of her and a man
The clothes she was wearing told me a sad tale
My wife was wearing a new bridal veil
So I pick up the picture and kiss it good bye
For missing in action she thought I was dead